Unusual Weather Events are falsely attributed to "Climate Change"

The primary effect of greenhouse

warming should be a reduction

in the temperature differential

between the tropics and the poles.

That has NOT happened 

in the Southern hemisphere, 

but HAS happened in 

the Northern Hemisphere.

In fact, Arctic warming,

and the smaller 

temperature differential 

between the Arctic and the

tropics, is decent evidence 

for greenhouse gas warming.

That reduced temperature

differential would be 

a very reasonable 

explanation for the 

long-term down trends of 

US extreme weather events, 

such as hurricanes and 

tornadoes.

It's puzzling, and anti-science,

to blame man made CO2

for causing about

+0.6 degrees C.,

warming since 1940, 

without scientific proof.

And even more anti-science

to blame warming for any 

extreme weather events.

That blame starts with 

the assumption, not a fact,

that the mild global warming

since 1940 is attributable 

to man made CO2 emissions, 

with no scientific proof 

that attribution is correct.

There's no way to know if

the mild, intermittent warming 

since 1940, was natural climate

change, or man made climate 

change.

Merely asserting it's man made,  

and claiming a consensus 

of some subset of scientists, 

does not create truth.

But even if you insist on

believing that warming was

caused ONLY by man made

CO2, there is no 

convincing evidence

global warming 

has caused a change 

in US hurricane or

tornado activity, 

both of which are in 

long term down trends.

In addition, any expected 

man made change

in extreme weather events

would be very small, 

relative to expected 

natural variability.

No climate change signal 

has been detected in sea levels, 

from long term records

of tide gauges that are

mounted on stable surfaces.

Experts disagree 

on most aspects 

of climate change,

if you consider ALL

scientists, not just

climate modelers.  

If the air is a little warmer, 

we may EXPECT more rain.

If sea surface temperatures 

are a little warmer,

we may EXPECT the 

tropical hurricanes 

to be more intense. 

But the warming 

may be caused by

natural variability, 

or man made.

Since no one knows 

the cause of the warming,

other than a list of

'the usual suspects',

the cause is a wild guess.

As scientists are interviewed, 

following each hurricane, 

they get mass media attention 

only if they blame global warming.

They might get attention on

Fox News, maybe, if they refuted

the 'global warming caused the 

hurricane narrative', or at least

dismissed the 'global warming 

made the hurricane more intense

narrative'.

Scientists who try to prove 

climate change isn’t causing 

extreme weather, get character

attacked.

Scientist Roger Pielke Jr., at the

University of Colorado in Boulder,

used to do world-leading research 

on climate change and 

extreme weather. 

He found convincing evidence 

climate change was NOT leading 

to higher rates of weather-related 

damages worldwide, after he

adjusted for increasing 

population and wealth. 

Pielke then faced a vicious

smear campaign, backed by

the Obama Administration, and

leading Democrat congressmen.

Dr John Holdren ( Obama’s Director 

of Office of Science, Technology 

and Policy ) posted an attack

on the White House web page, 

against Mr. Pielke's findings 

on disasters, and climate change, 

which was both inappropriate,

and scientifically incorrect.

Under great pressure,

Pielke quit the field in 2015.

False arguments that a small 

amount of global warming 

would result in more intense 

hurricanes, got a lot of attention, 

after 2005's Hurricane Katrina.

That accelerated a climate cult

strategy to scare school children, 

and have them convince their parents.

The child activist movement,

unfortunately, is similar to 

events during the emergence 

of most fascist and communist

movements.

Recruitment of children 

into the “culture wars”

is discussed here:

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/child-soldiers-in-the-culture-wars/

The current poster child 

for this smarmy activity 

is Swedish teenager 

Greta Thunberg.  

Thunberg claims she can see

CO2, which just happens

to be invisible, so the girl

is obviously a "mental case".

But Greta is cheered on by adults, 

who now use children in their 

climate change cult propaganda.

Children are being hurt by this 

escalating, hysterical, and 

false, climate change rhetoric.

In their minds, just being alive 

means emitting CO2, which 

contributes to the imagined

coming climate catastrophe. 

I wonder if this climate hysteria

contributes to the high teenage 

suicide rate ?

Extreme weather events can't

convincingly be attributed 

to man made global warming, 

even if you assume all 

recent warming is man made,

which would be FAR MORE than

"over half", the wild guess claim

made by the UN's IPCC.

The biggest problem is the 

career-saving silence 

of many scientists 

who know better.

For them, refuting the 

climate change cult's

junk science would be easy,

but just as risky as reporting 

they had seen a UFO 

-- the result would be ridicule, 

and the end of career 

advancement, or even 

the end of a long career.

The "answer" to climate

change junk science

is the separation of science

and government funding, 

which only pays for "scientists"

who support climate alarmism.

Meanwhile, any claim about 

climate change that warns of 

bad news in the future,

is likely to be published, 

will not be challenged by the

mainstream media, 

and WILL be automatically 

believed by the "trained parrots" 

of the climate change cult.

We are currently living 

in a very pleasant climate, 

with few of the extremes 

of rain, snow, heat, or cold, 

that were more common 

in earlier centuries.

Historically, the wettest 

and stormiest times 

occurred during the 

colder spells, at odds 

with the common claim

that extra warmth generates 

extra energy for storms, 

and a warmer atmosphere 

holds more moisture.

Many extreme climate phenomena 

are a manifestation of energy,

moving as heat, transported along 

the latitudinal temperature gradient 

between the tropics and the poles. 

The steeper that gradient is,

( gradient = tropics - poles temperature differential ),

the more energy has to be moved 

through it, and the more energy 

is available to create weather 

extremes.

Climate proxy studies 

show extreme weather

was a lot more common 

in the North Atlantic, 

and Western Mediterranean, 

during the Little Ice Age

( roughly 1300 to 1750 ).

Christopher Columbus had 

one of his ships destroyed 

by a Caribbean hurricane 

on his first voyage in 1492.

Modern global warming 

has caused a decrease 

in extreme weather 

since roughly 1750.

Costas et al. 2016, 

in their figure 10, 

show the result of 

17 published studies 

identifying the Little

Ice Age as one of the 

stormiest periods 

of the Late Holocene.

The claim that global warming 

is going to increase extreme 

weather is contrary to 

evidence, and real science. 

We should expect 

that global warming 

will DECREASE

extreme weather.

The only extreme weather 

that should be expected 

to increase with global warming

is the intensity of heat waves,

which has NOT happened, 

and the amount of precipitation, 

should increase, which would be 

good news.

There are many scared people 

out there, and not only leftists,

demanding that we 

dismantle successful 

economies, based on them

believing scary, fictional, 

climate scare stories, 

over the years.

Ye editor is a long-time atheist,

for about 60 years, starting

when I could first understand 

the concept, so I could be wrong, 

but ...

I believe Judeo-Christian tradition 

is rooted in apocalyptic views, 

so there must be a common 

human desire ( that I lack )

to believe humans 

are damaging the world.

I wonder how much 

of this climate alarmism 

can be explained by 

the 'secular CO2 is evil 

religion' taking the place 

of traditional religions, 

filling an almost universal

human need, in this 

more secular world ?

Maybe the junk science

of falsely blaming 

so many unrelated

weather events on 

climate change,

is caused by having 

too many scientists ?

They are running out of 

real science to investigate,

so use junk science

to get media attention, 

and government funding ?

Politicians and government

employees LOVE a crisis,

whether real or imaginary,

because people turn to 

the government for help, 

with any crisis.

The coming climate change

crisis is an imaginary crisis,

that had been promoted 

with dignity and real science

starting in 1957.

But the real science morphed 

into junk science by 1975, 

when a coming global cooling 

crisis was predicted by 

a small subset of scientists, 

who got their 15 minutes of fame.

Perhaps noticing how much 

attention the forecasts of a
coming global cooling crisis

got, the majority of scientists 
fearing a coming 
global warming crisis,

morphed from 

calm, real science,

with many doubts 

and uncertainties,

in 1975 ... and by 1988

there was hysterical 

junk science,

where the future climate 

was claimed to be known

with great certainty, 

and high confidence.

And that's where we are today.

So, we've been waiting 

for bad climate news 

for 62 years, 

starting in 1957,

or for 31 years, 

starting in 1988,

depending on 

which start point 

you prefer.

Meanwhile,

the biggest climate 

change so far,

is that Alaska has 

warmer winter nights

... but that's good news !

So where is the 

climate bad news

we are supposed 

to be experiencing ?

Invisible ?

Falsely blaming every 

severe weather event 

on climate change, 

is a clear sign 

of desperation, 

to keep the coming 
climate crisis belief alive,

NOT real science !